Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-12-15
WOLVERINE WHISPERINGS.

T. Stewart White f. E. Blakely, all OF
Grand Rapids.
WOLVERINE WHISPERINGS.
Benzie, Grand Traverse, Antrim and
Leelanaw counties voted on the local
option question on the 5th inst. The re-
suit in each case was a victory for local
option.
The dispute over portion of the site
for the new Detroit postofiice has been
satisfactorily settled, and the deeds to the
property have been forwarded to Wash
ington.
Abner Develle of Grass Lake, aged 50
years, is dead. He was pioneer in Jack
son county and the wealthiest man in the
village.
Harry Smith, Kalamazoo man, and for
many years journal clerk of the national
house Of representatives, has been re
moved. His successor Is J. &. Robinson
Of Indiana, ex-judge and ex-state senator.
who was once thought Of as an available
democratic candidate for governor.
South Haven hvs established free
reading room in the hope of counterfeit
ing the baneful influences Of the saloon.
The prosecuting attorney of Calhoun
county has officially notified the sheriff
and his deputies, and the Marshall police,
that they must see to the enforcement of
The state liquor laws
Frank Barker OF Abscota, Calhoun coun
ty, was killed by fall in Colorado. He
leaves u widow and several children.
An Elk Rapids man offers Henry George
10 acres Of land if he will come out there
and live. Ii. G. has not accepted the
oder.
Simon Xiii Go Be-Nese and others, all
natives of this state, and county of Emmett,
have gone to Washington to see about a
little money due them from Uncle Sam.
The new iron bridge over the Muskegon
river at Big Rapids is open for travel.
Mrs, Jane Douglass received severe in
juries to her spine by stepping in to hole
in Bay City bridge last March, and a
jury in the United States district court
at Detroit gave her verdict against Bay
City for $4,000 damages. Judge Brown
has decided that she must accept $1,000 or
he will order new trial.
A passenger train on the Chicago a.
rthwestern was ditched near Iron Riv,
er, Iron county, the other night, smashing
many cars and blocking the track oil night.
Several people were hurt, but none fatally
and few severely.
Eugene M. Converse, the Battle Creek
ment, and has been remanded for trial.
David Whitney, Jr., of Detroit, who
owns great deal of property in Grant
township Glare county, has enjoined the
township board from issuing the bonds
voted in aid of the Toledo Ann Arbor a.
Cadillac railroad. The injunction was one
day too late, as the bonds had been issued.
The second gas well at Niles has been
abandoned.
Mine officials report that the fire in the
Calumet and Hecia mine is under control.
A gift of an SS5 military album was
made to the Marquette Post of g. A. K
by the late Edward Breitung, but by care
lessnes5 on the part OF Capt. Hill, COM
piler of the work, it was never transmit
ted and only by accident the other day it
was traced to the possession of man at
Trenton, Wayne county, who forwarded
it to the post at Marquette.
Work is to be commenced on the St.
Ignace ~ Sault Ste. Marie road early next
spring.
Harry McGowan was instantly killed
and two others seriously injured by col
lision on the Grand Trunk near Port HUI
ron a few days ago.
Bronson has finally abandoned its gas
well.
Ii. N. M pore Of Coldwater, guardian of
Roy Teater, deceased, has commenced a
suit for $4,000 damages against Kirke X.
Sheldon, who owned and opera ted the
buzz saw from which the slab flew which
fatally hurt the Teater lad at the Branch
county fair in September.
Seventy-four law suits have been COM
menced against the Toledo, Ann Arbor a.
Cadillac railroad at Cadillac by laborers
who have taken this manner of collecting
their wages.
Luke Cooney, Jr., Of Kalamazoo, is I'M
der arrest for appropriating $4 which
came through the American express office.
The railroad commissioner is sending
out his annual report. Only nine of the
sixty-eight companies operating Michigan
railroads were able to return dividends
during the past year. Two passengers
and forty-seven employees have been
killed and thirty.eight passengers and 1874
employees injured.
The plan for the new postof1ice in De-
troit has been changed, and is pronounced
greatly superior to theplan first submitted.
Miss Julia Donahue, manager of the
Western Union te .egraph office and assist
ant postmistress at East Tawas, is dead.
Arthur Frost of East Saginaw, has been
convicted of cruelty to animals, and sen.
fenced to 50 days in jail and to pay ne
of $?5.
The drain laws of the state now in force
have been compiled under the direction OF
the secretary of state, as have also the
laws relating to highway and bridges, and
may be obtained by addressing that officer
at Lansing.